Perpetual TakeOver Channel

Use Case Description

This Use Case explains how to create a channel that
takes over
from the normally playing channel for a display or group of displays. The takeover will occur for a specific day and time perpetually.
For example, there is a Perpetual TakeOver channel that plays every Friday from 9AM to 10AM. During this time, no other channel should play. The following example showcases creation of a perpetual takeover channel that plays allows the content to play every Wednesday for 2 hours from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm.

Select the display
TakeOver
from the
Locations
folder. Click
Assign Channel
from the action bar to assign the takeover chanel.

To assign the
TakeOver
channel to your display at a scheduled time and populate the following fields from the
Channel Assignment
dialog box and click
Save
:

Channel Path
: Select the path to the
TakeOver
channel

Priority
: Set the priority of this channel greater than the
MainAdChannel
. For instance, the priority set in this example is 8.

Supported Events
: Select the
Idle Screen
and
Timer
.

Schedule
: Enter the text for the schedule that you want this channel to run the display. The text in the
Schedule
mentioned in this example is
on Wednesday after 14:00 and before 16:00
.

To learn more about the expressions you can add to the
Schedule
, refer to the
Example Expressions
section below.

active from
: Start date and time.

active until
: End date and time.

For example, the text in
Schedule
and
active from
and
active until
date and time here allows the content to play every Wednesday from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm.

Navigate to the display from
TakeOver
-->
Locations
-->
MainLobby
-->
MainLobbyDisplay
and click
Dashboard
from the action bar to view the assigned channels with their priorities, as shown below.

It is mandatory to set the priority of the takeover channel as the highest.

Now, the
TakeOver
channel will take over the
MainAdChannel
at 2:00 pm for two hours until 4:00 pm every Wednesday and play its content from Jan 09' 2020 until Jan 31' 2020.

Example Expressions

The following table summarizes few example expressions that you can add to the schedule while assigning channel to a display.

Expression

Interpretation

before 8:00 am

the channel plays before 8:00 am everyday

after 2:00 pm

the channel plays after 2:00 pm everyday

after 12:15 and before 12:45

the channel plays after 12:15 pm everyday for 30 minutes

before 12:15 also after 12:45

the channel plays before 12:15 pm everyday and then also after 12:45 pm

on the 1st day of January after 2:00 pm also on the 2nd day of January also on the 3rd day of January before 3:00 am

the channel starts playing after 2:00 pm on January 1st, continues playing for the whole day on January 2nd all the way until 3:00 am on January 3rd

on the 1-2 day of January after 2:00 pm also on the 2-3 day of January before 3:00 am

the channel starts player after 2:00 pm on January 1st, continues playing until 3:00 am on January 2nd, then it starts again on January 2nd at 2:00 pm and continues playing until 3:00 am on January 3rd

You can also use
military time
notation (that is, 14:00) instead of
am/pm
notation (that is, 2:00 pm).